PHP file not being executed from post-commit

Question

I have this in post-commit:

#!/bin/sh

REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"

/usr/bin/php /home/name/svn/scripts/post-commit.php $REPOS $REV

But whatever I do, post-commit.php isn't being executed, not even with a chmod a+rw on it. Also there is no output from exec.

What am I missing?

Update: removed exec > ./logs/log.txt from this example since it seems to confuse people.

Answer 1

try:

#!/bin/sh
REPOS="$1"
REV="$2"

#debug:
echo "------------------------------"
date >> /tmp/debug.txt
echo "$@" >> /tmp/debug.txt
id >> /tmp/debug.txt
env >> /tmp/debug.txt

/usr/bin/php /home/name/svn/scripts/post-commit.php "$REPOS" "$REV" > /full/path/to/log.txt 2>&1

Also, verify that your post script works fine when executed by hand.

Answer 2

exec replaces the current shell process, and doesn't start a new one. So after the exec command, your shell stops.

The purpose of your particular exec command eludes me by the way ... So just remove it and you should be fine.